Ritz-Carlton Tokyo receives bomb threat

According to police, a man speaking rudimentary Japanese called the hotel at around 10 a.m. and said he had placed a bomb on one of the guest floors, Fuji TV reported. All guests were evacuated for about 90 minutes while police searched the floors but no explosive device was found.

Police said the caller, if found, faces a charge of forcible obstruction of business.

Christmas eve is one of the busiest days of the year for the hotel industry.

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a man speaking rudimentary Japanese

Surely it can't have been that rudimentary if he managed to convey the message that there was a bomb on one of the guest floors over the phone? I don't remember seeing that kind of vocabulary in Japanese for Busy People or Minna no Nihongo.